[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

neighborhood \neigh"borhood\, n. written also neighbourhood.
   1. the quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of
      being or dwelling near; proximity.
      1913 webster

            then the prison and the palace were in awful
            neighborhood.                         --ld. lytton.
      1913 webster

   2. a place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the
      inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he
      lives in my neighborhood.
      1913 webster

   3. the inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other;
      as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
      1913 webster

   4. the disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness
      or good will. obs. --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster

   syn: vicinity; vicinage; proximity.

   usage: neighborhood, vicinity. neighborhood is
          anglo-saxon, and vicinity is latin. vicinity does not
          commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood.
          a neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. the
          houses immediately adjoining a square are in the
          neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat
          further removed are also in the vicinity of the
          square.
          1913 webster
see also:
neighborhood vicinity 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

neighborhood
     n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
          vicinity of asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
          always blames someone else in the immediate
          neighborhood"; "i will drop in on you the next time i am
          in this neck of the woods" syn: vicinity, locality,
           neighbourhood, neck of the woods
     2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
        neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for bush" syn: neighbourhood
     3: the approximate amount of something usually used
        prepositionally as in `in the region of'; "it was going
        to take in the region of two or three months to finish the
        job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" syn: region
see also:
vicinity locality neighbourhood neck of the woods region 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

77 moby thesaurus words for "neighborhood":
   airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation,
   area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies,
   circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines,
   context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country,
   department, district, division, entourage,
   environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent,
   foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland,
   immediacy, immediate foreground, land, magnitude, matter, milieu,
   nearness, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part,
   parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises,
   propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient,
   section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain,
   territory, three-mile limit, total environment, tune,
   twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone

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